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Task 3: The Importance of communication skills for engineers

 "Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter."

Gilbert Amelio, former President and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp

Excellent communication skills are absolute essential to effective leadership. This is especially true in build environment industry. The leader of an engineering or construction firm needs to communicate effectively to all stakeholders such as architects, engineers, sub-contractrors, workers, etc., and motivate them to ensure smooth execution and successful completion of a project. The leader needs to convey clearly important messages such as project objectives and requirements, project timelines and milestones, challenges during the varius construction phases, etc., to all parties involved in the project as any mistake resulted from miscommunication will have huge cost and time implication.


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  1. Brad BlackstoneJanuary 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM

    Thanks, Nic, for the early post of what I assume is a collaborative interpretation.

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  2. Jonathan PhuaJanuary 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM

    How would you, as a leader, motivate your teammates so that they are able to carry out your instructions more clearly?

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    1. Nic Voon LeiJanuary 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM

      For example in the building construction industry, speaking from my Diploma internship experience in the construction site, working under the hot sun is one of life's most difficult decision to make, hence I have learnt some of best ways to motivate my colleagues which is to acknowledge the project's progress is better than it was yesterday. Apart from arguing, we would get the different departments such as Architecture, M&E and Structural departments to come into one meeting room to discuss how to move forward if we are stuck without skipping anyone's steps and not having to waste loads of money in the construction sites.

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    2. Jonathan PhuaJanuary 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM

      Thanks for the explanation!

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    3. Nic Voon LeiJanuary 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM

      You are most welcome Jonathan!

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  3. priyaJanuary 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM

    very detailed in expressing the roles and responsibilities of a leader

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    1. Nic Voon LeiJanuary 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM

      Thank you for the kind compliment. I will strive harder in this Civil Engineering Industry!

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  4. BenJanuary 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM

    Very interesting Nic Voon. Were you perchance a commander in a previous life

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    1. Nic Voon LeiJanuary 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM

      During my Diploma Internship, I took the opportunity to broaden my horizons beyond and above. It has taught me that during tough times even under the hot sun, to achieve quickly for Singapore's way of Life is to ensure the work the PTE LTD company and I was doing could lead this construction company to become one of the best standards working alongside with our Singapore Government Agencies which is to hand over these HDB Blocks to our dearest Residents successfully. Hence, my team and I needed to come up with our own meeting and plan since the very beginning til the end without much delay in works and we happened to achieve our goals without fatal accidents.

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  5. Zenden SohJanuary 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM

    So insightful!

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